One year update – and a new blog.

It’s been a year since we decided to stop cruising, so I thought I’d give a quick update and let any interested readers know about a new blog I’ve started.

After thinking we might want to live in Beaufort, SC and discovering after many months that we were wrong, we realized that we need to give any place one full year before committing to it by buying a house. One year is enough to go through all four seasons, get through the honeymoon phase, and figure out if we still REALLY like a place. Well, we’ve spent a full year in Baltimore, and we still love it. So much so that we’ve decided to buy a row house next year.

Yep, we’re going to buy a land home, and that means Pegu Club is going on the market.  Our goal is to have her ready for sale by the middle of next month.  

We rented an Airbnb last winter (the marina turns the water off in the winter, so living on the boat was definitely a no-go), and we’ve already booked the same spot for one year beginning December 1st.  What happens if we sell Pegu Club before our rental starts?  We’ll stay somewhere else in the interim.  Where that might be is still to be determined, but the fact is we can go anywhere.  And why can we go anywhere?  Because I am now a flight attendant for a U.S. mainline carrier.  Yes, you read that right. 

Once we decided to stop cruising it was time to find a job.  I spent last summer driving a water taxi for Baltimore Water Taxi, and that was a lot of fun.  With a 51 passenger capacity it was the largest boat I had ever driven, and it had two engines which was new for me.  I enjoyed the challenge, but as fall approached I knew I needed to find a full-time job with benefits. 

I started an application to get admitted to the bar in Maryland, but the open tab sat there on my laptop for weeks.  I really didn’t want to go back to being a lawyer.  We went to house sit for three months in San Diego for my best friend and her husband, and the tab still sat there, open.

One day I was scrolling on Reddit when a “suggested” sub-Reddit came up: Cabin Crew Careers.  I tapped on it, and it was all about being a flight attendant.  Hmm.  Interesting.

When I dropped out of college many decades ago, my dad had suggested I try being a flight attendant.  I don’t know why I didn’t at the time, but here it was again.  I did some research, saw that the mainline carriers were hiring, applied on a whim, and much to my surprise I landed the job.

And now here we are.  So, if you’re interested, I’ve started a new blog.  It’s going to be like this one – basically a diary for myself.  It’s not about cruising or owning a boat, so certainly more limited in scope.  But if you want to check it out, you can find it at www.nothinggoestowindward.com.  

Because as the saying goes among sailors, nothing goes to windward like a 747.